When We Were Young 2025 Artist Feature: Weezer Bring Power Pop Precision To Vegas

For two desert nights in October, Weezer will turn Las Vegas into a hook factory. When We Were Young 2025 is stacking more than 60 bands across both days, and few are better built for a festival field than Rivers Cuomo and co. Four lifers who can drop sing-alongs at arena volume without breaking a sweat!

Why Weezer belongs here

This bill is a nostalgia engine, sure, but Weezer aren’t just a museum piece. The ‘Blue Album’ still lands like a sugar rush spiked with distortion, and ‘Pinkerton’ remains the awkward, razor-edged counterpoint that keeps things honest. That tension, glossy power-pop vs. confessional grit, is Weezer’s heartbeat and it plays beautifully in front of a crowd that grew up yelling ‘Undone – The Sweater Song’ in car parks.

What You’ll Actually Hear

We’re thinking a set that stitches eras together with ruthless efficiency: ‘Buddy Holly’, ‘Say It Ain’t So’ and ‘Undone’ for the day-ones; ‘Hash Pipe’, ‘Island in the Sun’ and ‘Beverly Hills’ for the radio years; ‘Perfect Situation’ and a curveball or two from the later records for the diehards. If they decide to tip the hat to the Blue Album’s 30 year glow up, the field’s going to turn into one giant, mildly dehydrated choir.

The Vegas Factor

Weezer thrive on precision, tight guitars, cleaner than they look arrangements, choruses that detonate right on cue. In a city built on spectacle, that discipline becomes its own flex, with no costume changes or pyros required; just four players turning economy into impact. With the same line-up both days, there’s a decent chance you can catch them twice and still find new edges: a nastier solo in ‘My Name Is Jonas’, a sly grin before ‘El Scorcho’, a deeper down-pick on ‘Say It Ain’t So’ that rattles your sternum.

Scene Report

When We Were Young is an emo-pop-punk reunion by design, but Weezer sit slightly left of that centre, the bridge between grunge fallout and millennial radio takeover. They were geeks with Marshall stacks who never apologised for a colossal chorus. In 2025, that still feels subversive, sincerity disguised as fun.

Bottom Line:

Vegas gets Weezer at full voltage. Bring sunscreen, lose your voice and let ‘Buddy Holly’ hit like it did the first time, only louder.

When We Were Young Festival 2025 – Tickets and VIP here!
Las Vegas Festival Grounds, Nevada
October 18 & 19, 2025: same line-up both days